Courses - CMS Winter 2024
Listings for future quarters are tentative and subject to change. For the most up-to-date information, please consult the UW Time Schedule. For a listing of all courses potentially offered, see the Course Catalog.
Winter 2024
CMS 240 A: Writing in Cinema and Media Studies
- MW 3:30pm - 5:20pm
SLN: 12513
Department Requirements Met:
- Composition and W-courses
GE Requirements Met:
- C
A critical approach to film and/or media texts and a workshop on writing papers in English. Topics vary. Offered: AWSpS.
CMS 240 C: Writing in Cinema and Media Studies
- MW 10:30am - 12:20pm
SLN: 12515
Department Requirements Met:
- Composition and W-courses
GE Requirements Met:
- C
A critical approach to film and/or media texts and a workshop on writing papers in English. Topics vary. Offered: AWSpS.
CMS 270 A: Perspectives on Film: Introduction
- TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm
SLN: 12516
Department Requirements Met:
- Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Introduction to film form, style, and techniques. Examples from silent film and from contemporary film. Course equivalent to: BIS 261 and T FILM 201.
CMS 271 A: Perspectives on Film: Great Directors
- TTh 8:30am - 10:20am
SLN: 12517
Department Requirements Met:
- Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Introduction to authorship in the cinema. The work of a major director or directors.
CMS 272 A: Perspectives on Film: Genre
- TTh 1:30pm - 3:20pm
SLN: 12518
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Introduction to study of film and/or television genre. Literary, mythic, and historic aspects of film and/or television genre.
CMS 295 A: Study Abroad
- to be arranged
SLN: 12519
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Equivalency for 200-level CMS courses taken on UW Study Abroad programs or direct exchanges.
CMS 301 A: Film and Media Studies: Analysis
- TTh 2:30pm - 4:20pm
SLN: 12521
Department Requirements Met:
- Cinema & Media Studies Core
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Introduction to the analysis of film. Covers major aspects of cinematic form: mise en scene, framing and camera movement, editing, and sound and color. Considers how these elements are organized in traditional cinematic narrative and in alternative approaches.
CMS 303 A: Genre Studies
- TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm
SLN: 12522
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Introduction to the history and significance of genre in film and/or television. May examine one or a selection of several genres, drawn from a list including, but not limited to, the western, melodrama, musical, thriller, sitcom, film noir, and documentary. Topics include form, ideology, authority, history, innovation, and parody. Offered: AWSp.
CMS 310 A: History of Film: 1895-1929
- TTh 9:00am - 10:50am
SLN: 12523
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Film history from its beginnings in the 1890s through the golden era of silent film in the 1920s. Topics include the invention of major film techniques, the creation of Hollywood and the studios, and movements such as expressionism, constructivism, and surrealism.
CMS 311 A: History of Film: 1930-1959
- TTh 2:30pm - 4:20pm
SLN: 12524
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Film history from the introduction of sound through the late 1950s. Focuses mostly on the golden age of the Hollywood studios and on alternative developments after World War II in Italy (Neo-Realism), France (the New Wave), and Japan.
CMS 315 A: History of New Media
- MW 3:30pm - 5:20pm
SLN: 12525
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Study of new media histories and methodologies for research, with particular emphasis on new and emergent technologies such as the Internet and other digital forms. Specific media to be analyzed vary.
CMS 321 A: Oppositional Cinema/Media
- WF 12:30pm - 2:20pm
SLN: 12527
Department Requirements Met:
- Cinema & Media Studies Core
GE Requirements Met:
- DIV
- A&H
Approaches film and related media as socially and politically engaged practice, with focus on screen media produced or received in "opposition" to dominant cultural and entertainment industry norms. Topics vary.
CMS 370 A: Basic Screenwriting
- MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm
SLN: 12528
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Students develop collaborative critical and creative skills; studying screenwriting manuals and techniques; adapt stories for screenplays; and/or write synopses, treatments, and first acts of their own screenplays.
CMS 395 A: Study Abroad
- to be arranged
SLN: 12529
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Equivalency for 300-level CMS courses taken on UW Study Abroad programs or direct exchanges.
CMS 397 A: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies
- MW 10:30am - 12:20pm
SLN: 22129
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- SSc
- A&H
Varying topics relating to film in social contexts. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.
CMS 480 A: Senior Capstone
- MW 12:30pm - 2:20pm
SLN: 12531
Department Requirements Met:
- Capstone for Cinema
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Capstone course in cinema and media studies. Includes research, creative, and/or reflective project. Topics vary. Prerequisite: CMS 301.
CMS 490 A: Directed Study or Research
- to be arranged
SLN: 12532
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Individual study of topics in cinema and media studies by arrangement with the instructor and the Comparative Literature, Cinema, and Media Department advising office.
CMS 491 A: Internship
- to be arranged
SLN: 12533
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Supervised experience in local businesses and other agencies. Open to upper-division cinema and media studies majors with approval of departmental internship supervisor.
- MW 3:30pm - 5:20pm
SLN: 12534
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Provides a basic grounding in the theory, history, and criticism of film and media studies, and introduces central debates, topics, and methods in the field.
CMS 571 A: National Frameworks
- TTh 1:30pm - 3:20pm
SLN: 12535
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Approaches to national, transnational, global, diasporic, and/or regional cinemas and media. Content varies.
CMS 590 A: Master of Arts Essay
- to be arranged
SLN: 12536
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Research and writing project under the supervision of a faculty member. Offered: jointly with C LIT 590; AWSpS.
CMS 597 A: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies
- Th 3:30pm - 6:50pm
SLN: 12537
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Varying topics in cinema and media studies. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.
CMS 600 A: Independent Study or Research
- to be arranged
SLN: 12538
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.
CMS 800 A: Doctoral Dissertation
- to be arranged
SLN: 21988
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 800.